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Timothy Leighton
also in laptops, PDA’s, MP-3 players, and hearing aids.
At Darmstadt, Dr. Sessler also developed the laser-induced pressure- pulse method for investigating charge and polarization distributions in thin polymer films with micrometer resolu- tion. This has become a leading method for mapping electroactive polymers and polymers used for cable insulation, leading to improved prop- erties of power cables.
Sessler was born in Rosenfeld, Germany and studied physics at the Universities of Freiburg, Munich, and Goettingen. After receiving his Ph.D. from Goettingen in 1959, Sessler moved to the United States to work at Bell Labs. He stayed at Bell Labs until 1975, when he returned to Germany where is currently professor of elec- troacoustics at the Darmstadt University of Technology.
He is Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a Life Fellow of the Institute of Eletrical and Electronics Engineers. Sessler, who holds over 100 U.S. and foreign patents is the recipient
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of many awards, including AT&T’s George R. Stibitz Trophy, the Helmholtz Medal–the highest award of the German Acoustical Society, The Franklin Institute Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering (with James E. West), and the Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal of the Acoustical Society of America. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1999.
Timothy Leighton elected Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering
Timothy Leighton has been elected to Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the UK National Academy of Engineering, which brings together the UK's most distinguished and prestigious engineers, interfacing with and advising Government, indus- try, and academia.
He is Associate Dean (with respon- sibility for Research) of the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton, UK. He is responsible for research policy and its implementation for the Faculty’s ~200
academic staff in four academic units (one of which is the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research), and for research in the four Enterprise Units (one of which is the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre).
Leighton recently shared the Royal Society’s 2011 Brian Mercer Award for Innovation with Dr. Peter Birkin for their work in sonochemistry. Other hon- ors he has received include: the 2012 Institute of Chemical Engineering Award for Water Management and Supply (with Peter Birkin and Doug Offin), the A. B. Wood Medal (1994), the Tyndall Medal (2001), Paterson Medal (2005), and the RWB Stephens Medal (2009) of the Institute of Acoustics. Twice he has been the first recipient of a new international award: the inaugural Early Career Medal and Award of the International Commission for Acoustics in 2004; and in 2001 he was the inaugu- ral recipient of the Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography, awarded by the Acoustical Society of America. He is a Chartered Physicist, a Chartered Engineer, and has Fellowships of the Acoustical Society of America, the Institute of Acoustics, and the Institute of Physics.
ASA members elected fellows of the IEEE
The following ASA members have been elected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers:
Mostafa Fatemi, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine: “For contribution to ultrasound radiation force imaging and tissue characterization”
Michael Insana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: “For contributions to ultrasound imaging methods, especially elastography”
Reinhard Lerch, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg: “For contribu- tions to ultrasonic transducer technol- ogy and computer modeling of sensors and actuators”
Hugh McDermott, Bionic Ear Institute, University of Melbourne: “For contributions to improved sound- processing techniques for cochlear implants and hearing aids”
Roy Streit, Metron, Inc: “For contri- butions to multi-target tracking classifi- cations, and sonar signal processing”
Brian Bell